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solely on the Party’s First Amendment activities. For example, the NYPD targeted the BPP’s program for community control of schools in the African-American community. Reporting on an August 25, 1966 meeting of community organizations, the NYPD’s Bureau of Special Services (BSS) submitted the following memorandum to the NYPD’s Chief Inspector: The speakers were all in agreement that the schools in Harlem were inferior in curriculum and that the teachers had little regard for their students. They stated also that if this system is permitted to go on, the Negroes will continue to be lacking in education... Further det a i l s regarding this boycott on September 12, 1966 will follow in another report. T h e r e were 40 persons in attendance at this meeting which ended without incident. The NYPD regularly communicated with police departments throughout the country, sharing information on the BPP, its members and protected First Amendment activities. On June 13, 1967, for example, Deputy Inspector William Knapp requested that the Colorado State Police provide him with all information on ‘Panther Publications’ assuring Colorado that the request will be treated with discretion due to the confidential nature of the BPP investigation (A 202). In May 1967, the NYPD requested the ‘names pedigrees, photos and other relevant information’ on the BPP maintained in the files of the Los Angeles Police Department (A 205). By July 1968, it was the opinion of the NYPD that the Black Panther Party has the potential for great trouble... it is requested... that all uniformed and detective commands forward any information on the [Black Panther Party] to the Bureau of Special Services. The NYPD created index cardsmemor ia l i zi ng information on the protected activities of all BPP members, their associates, their families and their friends. In the Bin Wahad lawsuit the NYPD produced copies of over 30,000 index cards memorializing information on over 15,000 individuals and organizations. By mid 1968, the FBI and NYPD were working to neutralize the BPP on a daily basis. On August 29, 1968 FBI Special Agent Henry Naehle reported on his meeting with a member of an NYPD Special Unit investigating the BPP. SA Naehle acknowledged that the FBI’s New York Field Office has been working closely
with BSS in exchanging information of mutual interest and to our mutual advantage. The NYPD official noted that his unit is actually in ‘competition’ with BSS but that given their goals, such competition is a ‘healthy thing’. Documents produced in the /Bin Wahad/ lawsuit show a pattern of mutual activity by the FBI and NYPD designed to destroy the Black Panther Party. For example, an FBI Inspector’s Review for the first quarter of 1969 shows that the NYPD, in conjunction with the FBI, had an interview and arrest program as part of their campaign to neutralize and disrupt the BPP. The NYPD advised the FBI that these programs have severely hampered and disrupted the BPP, particularly in Brooklyn, New York, where, for a while, BPP operations were at a complete standstill and in
fact have never recovered sufficiently to operate effectively. In the late 1960’s there was considerable support among white activists and some liberals for the BPP and its programs. When the Panthers came under attack committees were formed to aid in the legal and political defense of members. But these support efforts were often impeded by FBI/ NYPD counterintelligence. For example, following a fund raiser at the home of conductor Leonard Bernstein, the FBI sent spurious letters to those in attendance in order to ?thwart the aims and efforts of the BPP in their attempt to solicit money from socially prominent groups... This included sending articles from the BPP newspaper to the primarily Jewish attendees of the gathering expressing the BPP’s support for Palestinian self- determination. The Rex Zero 1S is one of the highest quality pistols and best values in today’s handgun market. The Rex is an all metal, hammer fired pistol that has passed extensive Slovenian mili t a r y / N A T O based tests, and has a lifetime wa r r a nt y. The Rex allows the user to operate the gun in their choice of modes; either DA/SA or SAO. AREX is an ISO90001 certified company. Their expertise shows in the exceptional fit and finish of this gun. The frame is T 7 0 7 5 -T 6 aluminum with fulllength slide rails, dust cover picatinny rail, ambi-safeties, and ambimagazine releases. The slide is cut from solid bar stock, coated to protect against wear and corrosion, and has forward cocking serrations. The steel sights can be replaced with any after-market SIG dovetail sights. AREX makes their own magazines, and they are of superb quality. They contain a unique progressive rate spring, are easy to disassemble for cleaning, are coated inside and out for corrosion resistance, and the spring is attached to the follower (can be removed). Introductory Price $599.00 Topics include, but are not restricted to: - New interfaces for musical expression Non-musical performance interfaces - Multimodal and multisensory media - Augmented stage technologies - Audiovisual performance - Biophysical sensors - Brain-computer interfaces - Artificial intelligence and ALife in interfaces - Notation for new interfaces - Live coding in music, video, animation, dance - Experimental gaming interfaces -
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rhizocephalan - a group of highly-modified parasitic barnacles - the most well-known example is Sacculina carcini. As you can see in the photo above, rhizocephalans look about as similar to a seashore barnacle as a haggis. The kidney-shaped orange part is the externa the parasite’s reproductive organs. It might not look like much, but it is capable of undergoing at least 33 breeding cycles, producing up to 500000 larvae each time. The rest of this parasite, call the interna, are actually those luxurious green threads which are wrapped around the crab’s internal organs. Given the extremely intimate relationship that rhizocephalan parasites have with their host sending delicate roots throughout the crab’s body and manipulating their physiology, all without setting off the immune system they are finely tuned towards their particular host species. So even when there are alternative potential hosts available, neither species can make a switch. From the parasite’s perspective, there’s no need to do so when your host is so abundant. During their evolution, many parasites have lost physical characteristics which would otherwise allow us to visually distinguish them from their close relatives. Because of that, their differences may not be immediately obvious to us. The use of molecular biology techniques has enabled us to start seeing the true diversity of parasites - most of which are hidden in plain sight. “Law enforcement officials, in carrying out their duty, shall, as far as possible, apply nonviolent means before resorting to the use of force and firearms. They may use force and firearms only if other means remain ineffective or without any promise of achieving the intended result. UN Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officers.” “While serving as a U.S. Marine on patrol in Afghanistan, we wore desert camouflage to blend in with our surroundings, carried rifles to shoot back when under enemy attack, and drove around in armored vehicles to ward off roadside bombs. We looked intimidating, but all of our vehicles and equipment had a clear purpose for combat against enemy forces. So why is this same gear being used on our city streets? Driven by martial rhetoric and the availability of military-style equipment - from bayonets and M16 rifles to armored personnel carriers - American police forces have often adopted a mind-set previously reserved for the battlefield. The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop, armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties. Compliance Campaign One hundred years ago Albert Einstein in his general theory of relativity predicted the existence of a dark side to the cosmos. He thought there were invisible ‘g r av it at iona l waves’, ripples in space-time produced by some of the most violent events in the cosmos - exploding stars, colliding black holes, perhaps even the Big Bang itself. For decades, astronomers have gathered strong corroborative evidence of the existence of these waves, but they have never been detected directly ‘ until now. They were the last part of the general theory still to be verified. Astronomers have used light to study the universe with optical telescopes for hundreds of years. We have expanded that view hugely since the middle of the 20th century, by building detectors
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soundtrack by brian eno. just try to shut up the old school double speak about more “realpolitik” combined with the ideal of “a european supranational identity” which made certain former leftists figures of the political class look irreplaceable in brussels. the political horizon is global and nothing else. if this was about basic radical democracy, then it looked too much like the Models suggest the neutral state is most likely for the second half of 2016, followed by LaNina, with a repeat El Nino assessed as very unlikely. Historically, the breakdown of strong El Nino events brings above-average rainfall to some, but not all, parts of Australia in the first half of the year. The Indian Ocean Dipole has little influence on Australian climate bet w e e n December and April formation of a new political party than an extraparliamentary, internationalist network of critical leftists. The agrihood is an attempt to invert the wasteful nature of the gated community, swapping golf-courses and fitness centers for functioning farms. Given the massive waste of water that goes into maintaining 18 holes, the agrihood represents a growing trend that embodies the collective need to reconsider many of our current urban frameworks. The United States is currently leading the way, with agrihoods popping up across the country. This recent, positive trend marks the intersection of land made available following the 2008 real estate bubble and the growing interest in community-supported agriculture ventures. -4F, windy, bleak. Grapefruit, raisin bread toast, sausage rolls. Coffee. The recession has hit everybody really hard. My neighbour got a predeclined credit card in the mail. Wives are having sex with their husbands because they can’t afford batteries. CEO’s are now playing miniature golf. ExxonMobil laid off 25 Congressmen. A stripper was killed when her audience showered her with rolls of pennies while she danced. I saw a Mormon with only one wife. If the bank returns your check (CHEQUE) marked “Insufficient Funds,” you call them and ask if they meant you or them. McDonald’s is selling the 1/4 ouncer. Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America. Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children’s names. My cousin had an exorcism but couldn’t afford to pay for it, and they re-possessed her! A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico. A picture is now
only worth 200 words. When Bill and Hillary travel together, they now have to share a room. The Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas is now managed by Somali pirates. And, finally... I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call centre in Pakistan, and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could drive a truck. Things are going well. Trip up Thursday was made with no problems. Traffic was minimal. Breezed through the rider crossing with no wait! We got here around 12:30 Friday was fun. Mike Kacmar has never been to Vancouver. We went to Granville Island for breakfast -- Nutella/ banana crepe and chai for me. We
wandered around Granville and shopped. I bought a hat at my hat store. We grabbed lunch for later -- salad roll with peanut sauce and fresh squeezed orange/ginger juice for me. It was SOOO good! Then we orienteered. I did a course, which went well, although it took me a long time in which to do it. Mike is spending Friday and Saturday nights in the hostel where many of the orienteers are staying. Scott and I are with Val and Russ. For dinner, we went to our favorite Thai place, Krua Thai. I had chicken curry, garlic vegetables, spring roll and pad Thai. Then we watched a movie, the third in the Bourne series. Today, Scott is orienteering this morning. Val and I will have brunch at Thomas Haas, then she will drop me off for my afternoon orienteering event. We plan to have pizza and watch hockey tonight. Amanda and her boyfriend will stop by today or tomorrow to see us. Rain and sun yesterday. We orienteered without getting wet. Rain today. Hope all is well with you. Is it true that you cannot drink the water in Por t la nd ? Why? It cannot be another tale of greed and whatever as in Flint. One of our Ontario hockey teams (London, I think) brought skids of bottled water to Flint when they arrived to play a hockey game r e c e n t l y. Anyway, the government has come down heavily on the Flint culprits. But the sad story simply shows what politicians are capable of doing. How is Vanessa? I wouldn’t think the weather would be all that good in Oregon for orienteering. Parkway Place consists of four interconnected multi-tenant office buildings. Over 4000 employees from companies such as Shoppers Drug Mart, IBM Canada Limited, CH2M Hill and iQor enter and exit their offices through a second floor concourse level which is where the Art and Accessories Exhibit will be held. 24 artists will be invited to showcase and sell their work for the entire weekend. We will be publicizing the event through social media, directly to the tenants who work in the building and on billboards. There will be free parking on the property for the duration of the show. In the United States, children go hungry. Human beings endure poverty so deep “many people don’t believe [it] exists here.” US residents pay far more for health care than the people of any other wealthy
country, yet their bodies are sicker and more broken. The public school system is unfairly funded and racist. Workers go abused and underpaid. The government throws more people behind bars than any other nation in the world. More than one in four Black and Brown Americans are living in poverty, further undermined by institutional racism and murderous police forces. Hispanic and Latina women are making 54 cents on the dollar compared to white men. More people are buried here because of gun violence than in any other industrialized country. The American people are suffering. Yet this is not a poor country. While kids’ stomachs rumble and Native families struggle to survive, the top 0.1 percent of Americans are sitting on as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent combined. The workers of this country see scraps from the tables they set and serve. Oppression is a highly profitable business. So why is it that the government of such a fabulously wealthy country does not provide for its people, in fairness or equality? Why are the individuals who make the laws and rule the land allowing this oppression and abuse to persist? Why do they not voice the needs of the people, as is their sole responsibility? Follow. The. M o n e y. Long have the powerful few profited from the poor majority’s struggle, and the United States in 2016 is no different. Through complex and convoluted public policy, the politicians in Congress and the executives of large corporations are capitalizing, as humans have for millennia, on an inequitable system to make off with millions. Last year, a student in my class was image-processing a text we had photographed at a famous library in Rome. As he worked, tiny Greek writing began to appear from behind the text. Everyone gathered around, and he read a line from a lost work of the Greek comic dramatist Menander. This was the first time in well over a thousand years that those words had been pronounced aloud. Pretty much all the power train parts on our Go-4’s are from Hyundai Amica and Atos model cars. None of which were ever sold in the USA. Primarily sold in the UK and India etc. The wheel/rim specs for those cars are 13” dia., 4.5 to 6” width (155 to 175mm), offset of 38 to 46 mm, 54mm center hole (2.125”). There are quite a
few wheels like that from old cars from the 60’s like the mustang, falcon, el camino etc. Just make sure center hole is the same. The Benjolin is a standalone synthesizer designed by Rob Hordijk from the Netherlands. It contains two oscillators (one LFO and one VCO), a voltage controlled filter and a circuit called a ‘Rungler,’ which allows chaotic cross-modulation possibilities between the different parts of the circuit. Hordijk refers to the Benjolin as a circuit which has been ‘bent by design.’ These hand-made Macumbista Benjolins are officially licensed by Hordijk, and have been further customized with a patchbay, which can be used to interface with other modular synthesizers or to setup further control voltage feedback systems within the Benjolin itself, attenuators on the three control voltage input and LEDs displaying the internal state of the Rungler. The double version, which I have named the Butterfly Benjolin, allows incredible amounts of chaotic cross-modulation between the two halves of the instrument. The price of the Benjolin V3 is EUR 495 (incl. 19% EU VAT) / EUR 416 (shipped outside the EU), and the price of the Butterfly Benjolin is EUR 895 (incl. 19% EU VAT) / EUR 752 (shipped outside the EU), plus shipping. The material circumstances that are dragging Europe (and the US) down have more to do with geopolitical and demographic shifts, the kind of stuff that Keith Hart is talking about. These are, at least in part, related to technological changes, but are primarily embodied in logistics, distribution of productive capacities and changing patterns of the world economy (such as increasing “southsouth trade”) and not in techniques of crowd control. Islander Jane Hartline, Director of the Sauvie Island Habitat Partnership, will present this month’s program on some of our amphibian and reptilian neighbors. You’ll learn about what species you may find on your property, how to tell them apart, and what we can all do on our properties to enhance habitat for them. She’ll also talk about the heroic efforts going on just south of the island, where she and a group of 80 volunteers run a shuttle service for Portland’s largest known population of red-legged frogs. The frogs migrate from Forest Park, across Highway 30 to the Harborton Wetlands and back to lay their eggs. Volunteers intercept and shuttle them on warm-ish rainy nights between mid-December and late March to keep them from getting squished on the highway. As you may have heard, there were several European and Asian gypsy moth detections this past summer in St. Johns and Forest Park. Both of these insects are exotic and invasive forest pests that could devastate Forest Park as well as forests on our island. A Nobel prize winning economist, former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, and chairman of the President’s council of economic advisers (Joseph Stiglitz) says that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank loan money to third world countries as a way to force them to open up their markets and resources for looting by the West. Around the world, the message received is that, whoever wins [the U.S. election], expect only more of the same - national narcissism disguised as altruism, corporate appeasement, and the arbitrary use of U.S. military and economic might. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destruc-
tive selfishness. Americans are cultivated like mushrooms, from birth to death, kept in the dark and fed horseshit. Anyone who thinks that democratic governments would not kill their own citizens is uninformed beyond belief. We find that two-thirds of the global population (4.0 billion people) live under conditions of severe water scarcity at least 1 month of the year. Nearly half of those people live in India and China. Half a billion people in the world face severe water scarcity all year round. The average 65-year-old borrower has 47% more mortgage debt than those in 2003. After seven years of benefiting from the greatest transfer of wealth in history, the U.S. banking industry topped it off with record profits in 2015. The Great Fleecing may have reached its height just as the scheme known as Quantitative Easing ran out of gas. Kissinger is an amoral egotist who enabled dictators, extended the Vietnam War, laid the path to the Khmer Rouge killing fields, stage-managed a genocide in East Timor and overthrew the democratically elected left-wing government in Chile. Maya Q’eqchi’ women survivors recently entered the Supreme Court in Guatemala as part of the Sepur Zarco case to demand justice for sexual violence, sexual and domestic slavery, forced disappearances and murder, crimes committed during the internal armed conflict of 1960-1996. The enormous mining corporation tried every which way they could to evict Mxima Acua de Chaupe and her family of subsistence farmers. They used the police, guards, journalists, judgements, and many other weapons. But this is a steadfast family, with a woman deeply rooted in her land in Peru’s northern Andes, who resisted with all her strength and would not give up. Dear valued buyer, thanks for your buying, could you please kindly let me know if you receive the package? if yes, is there any problem with your item? are you satisfied with it? If you have any concern, just let me know directly. Feedback is really important for a seller, if you have any problem, please do not open the case or leave negative feedback directly, it won’t solve any problem, I cherish every buyer and every transaction, I am always here and let’s keep in touch. thank you -crystalcoral Wintry weather for Midwest, Ohio Valley; Bitter cold for Northeast A bitterly cold airmass has invaded the eastern U.S this weekend bringing the coldest temperatures of the season. Gusty winds will combine with these cold temperatures to create dangerous wind chills well below zero in many parts of the Northeast. Meanwhile, a developing storm in the Plains will bring wintry precipitation to the Midwest and Ohio Valley on Sunday. I still think you should be a famous chef! Pleased you are keeping up with your exercising. It’s still very cold here. Once I got home from the mall, I didn’t venture out. Tomorrow I am taking Liz out to dinner at Michaels on the Thames. Hope the driving will be OK as the forecasters claim. Poor birds. PS oh yes, dentist-robbers. I had my biannual teeth cleaning. Cost $178. And they found a small cavity, which will be repaired March 1. The AltaMar bus, traveling from Salina Cruz to Pinotepa, was forced to stop at about 2:30am by four men riding in a Nissan Tsuru on a stretch of highway in the municipality of San Andrs Huaxpaltepec, near Alto de Carrizo. The bus driver was forced to drive down a side road some 300 meters away from the highway, where the attackers took personal belongings and cash from the passengers, and removed the stereo system from the bus. One passenger, who was still missing as of this morning, fled the scene of the robbery and escaped. Police are searching for Martn Arturo Tirado Liberio, 51, of Salina Cruz, who is believed to have run because he was carrying a large quantity of cash. One report today stated that it was the third attack on an AltaMar bus so far this year. More than 20 buses were robbed last year on Highway 200 between Acapulco and Salina Cruz. In the morning of the tenth day of my walk along the Shikoku Pilgrimage I came into the small fishing port and town of Hiwasa. Right next door to a museum displaying information about the turtles who lay eggs in the area was the local Hachiman Shrine. It was not a very big shrine, but had the usual collection of big trees, komainu, shimenawa, ema, zuijin, etc, some of which are shown Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (14 Pennsylvania) Whooper Swan (2 Florida) Tufted Duck (3 New York, 2 Vermont, 1 Washington) American Fla-
mingo (4 Florida) Brown Booby (2 California) Hookbilled Kite (1 Texas) Northern Jacana (10 Texas) Ruff (2 California) Slaty-backed Gull (1 Illinois) Smooth-billed Ani (2 Florida) Aplomado Falcon (8 Texas) Sky Lark (1 British Columbia) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (2 Arizona) Redwing (1 British Columbia, 2 Nova Scotia) Whitethroated Thrush (7 Texas) Rufous-backed Robin (2 Arizona) White-collared Seedeater (3 Texas) Crimsoncollared Grosbeak (1 Texas) Blue Bunting (2 Texas) Blue Bunting (West Mexico) (1 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (2 Arizona) Brambling (1 Idaho, 4 Ohio) Physical signage is perhaps the first step in exter na l i z ing the naming process. As social structures become more and m o r e global (de-locali z e d) , naming structures have evolved that are more and more ‘universal’. (Exactly the same process as any kind of sociallydriven standardization in engineering, language, and such). GPS, as a numeric cataloging of discrete points on a (socially) abstracted mathematical surface is a specific form of representation. Why do we struggle to associate events with those places? Are we continuing the inexorable alienation process that separates our social self from non-standardize being? Is there a praxis that can bring these two systems together without the seeming inevitable separation promulgated by a forced deference to standardization? A sudden whiteout caused a 50-vehicle pileup on Interstate 78 in Lebanon County Saturday morning that left three people dead, sent more than 40 to hospitals and forced 70 others into a warming shelter as the wind chill hit single digits, authorities said. As many as 100 community radio operators in the country, out of 187 radio stations currently on air, are in effect operating illegally while transmitting programmes. A majority of them do not have the licence to operate, and as for the rest, they don’t have valid agreements with the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. The licences and the agreements have expired and the fault lies with the Ministry, which is yet to give finishing touches to the Grant of Permission Agreement (GOPA), an essential prerequisite to obtain licences. The current corporate media business model of celebrity as an income producer and celebrity as a sensationalizing, titillating device for increasing the value of content is something we stay away from. It’s deep-
ly cynical to sensationalize this trusted transaction, when someone come to you with a document and puts it forward to you. This week, John Young and Deborah Natsios, the founders of Cryptome, one of the world’s oldest and best-known repositories of leaked intelligence documents, quietly posted a URL to an interview they conducted on February 6 during a conference in Berlin, Germany. Young and Natsios are introduced, correctly, as “renowned figures within a larger community people interested in keeping governments and institutions accountable, and using documents to do that.” But they also offer deep insights into the media and how it has handled revelations about U.S. intelligence and the National Security Agency. And their remarks, such as the quote above,
clearly catch their host by surprise. In the 18th minute, they issue a scathing rebuke of “celebrity” journalism as practiced, in their opinion, by The Intercept, the publication owned by Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media. The interview is worth hearing in its entirety, and I urge anyone who’s had questions and concerns about Edward Snowden and his relationship to The Intercept’s founding editors, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, to listen to it and carefully consider their arguments. Why? Because Cryptome raises serious questions that nobody else on the left or in the media want to talk about, including how Omidar has created a business from Snowden’s cache; what exactly Snowden may have been doing while he was working for the CIA prior to his time at NSA (and what else he may have been doing at NSA itself ); and why Snowden and The Intercept continue to proselytize for Tor, the anonymization tool, despite its massive funding from the U.S. government, the Pentagon and the national security state. To long time followers of Cryptome, this response was unsurprising. Before Wikileaks, before Ed Snowden, there was Cryptome. Manhattan-based architects John Young and Deborah Nat sio s founded Cr y ptome. org in 1996 as a repository for documents no one else would publish, including lists of CIA assets, in-depth technical schematics of sensitive national security installations, and copyrighted material. As leaking has created a vibrant media ecosystem in recent years, complete with favored outlets, journalists and sources, Cryptome has positioned itself as its curmudgeonly ombudsman, quietly but blisteringly cutting down the hype and blather it sees in its competitors while advocating a form of radical transparency as straightforward as Cr y ptome .org’s bare-bones website. Young: Let me name some names. ACLU, one of the most corrupt organizations in New York City and around the world. We detest how they’re handling Snowden. They’re using him for funding purposes. Meanwhile, they’re turning down more needy people because they’re not good for fund-raising. Look at what these folks are paid. Phenomenal salaries are being paid. Phenomenal salaries are being paid to The Intercept. These are your corrupt orga-
nizations to get these kinds of salaries out there while others who provide the information are either going to jail or getting nothing. I think that’s the pattern that’s going on now under the national security realm. Now I should say the National Security Archives and the Federation of American Scientists do not do that. But some of these newcomers to the national security field are. ACLU is an old organization. But we know people who’ve left ACLU over this issue, because they’ve become moneydriven and not public service driven. And they refuse to have anything to do with ACLU. And that’s a tragedy because it once had a wonderful history. Now the question is, who else is on the list? There are others who are smelling the coffee of money-making. Socially engaged design concepts; products, furniture, lighting, interior elements, everyday objects, aid products, shelters, home accessories, fashion garments, stationary; urban services; innovative design and production scenarios, etc. that offer economicallyand socially sustainable solutions to local problems, both in urban and ruralenvironments. Criteria appreciated by the Jury: socially engag ing and innovative features of the project that enhance the quality of community life; ergonomics; rational production andtransportation costs; use of materials available locally; implementation of local knowledge and techniques; environmentally friendly production process, innovative use of recycled materials; significant social impact on your immediate community. Dear Customer security measure, we detected suspicious information on your account. You received this message due to Invalid information in your account. Please update your information immediately so that you can continue to enjoy all the benefits of your PayPaI account. If you don’t update your information, Your account will be limited. We are sorry for the inconvenience, but we are working hard to maintain the confidentiality of your information. Log In Now ADD A MOBILE NUMBER SportDiscus has over 700,000 qualified references from thousands of international periodicals, books, e-journals, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and websites as well as has direct links to fulltext articles. Epistemology - the study of
knowledge and justified belief - has traditionally taken a highly individualistic approach. Some have thought that this approach leads to a distorted view of the human epistemic situation. In order to correct for such imbalances some philosophers have embraced the idea of approaching epistemological concerns from a social perspective. Social epistemology refers to a wide-ranging set of approaches to the study of knowledge which construes human knowledge as having an important and weighty social dimension. Social epistemology studies the significance of social interaction in understanding the character and value of knowledge. On the 26th and 27th March 2016 the University of Tartu will host a graduate conference on topics that fall within the field of social epistemology. Since the beginning of time, there is little that humanity held more sacred than the memory of a past that shaped, nourished and gave purpose and direction to individuals and societies alike, a past whose legacy lives on in the new generations. Most cultures retrace their roots to powerful, wise and heroic forefathers, sometimes endowed in the collective imaginary with magical or spiritual abilities and worshipped within ancestors’ cults. However, if socio-cultural roots are often interwoven with myth and legend, individual roots are much more tangible, closer and more intimate. They can be found in a community’s specific customs, norms and ties, in a neighbour’s craftsmanship, in a grandmother’s old tales and lullabies, in the memory of a mother’s embrace. These relics of how we came to be stay with us throughout our lives, influencing our thoughts, desires, narratives, attitudes and actions. They follow us on journeys to new lands, grow and change in meaning through the different stages of our lives and ultimately, shape the legacy that each and all of us leave behind. Every large scale social phenomenon, every significant historical or individual development is in many ways touched (often brought about) by meaningful, formative events and experiences in the past and has lasting consequences on the future. Without a thorough exploration of these influences, understanding our personal and social timeline, reducing conflict and achieving better communication and cooperation among individuals, groups and nations of different backgrounds will prove to be a futile and frustrating task. It is often said that once cut off from his roots, one will have great difficulties in finding himself, as the legacy of the past is a major factor in shaping one’s identity. However, ties with history, tradition, community and family are often severed, weakened, redefined and reshaped. Sometimes this is caused by violence or adversity, by conflict, or traumatic experiences. Other times, it’s a natural consequence of individualization, of seeking better opportunities in life, of living in a fast-moving, globalized world where migration is a highly common occurrence and customs, cultures and identities blend together to create a new sense of personal and social history. In modern times, the need to feel rooted seems to be felt more acutely than ever, prolonged disembeddedness leading to anxiety, alienation, loneliness and depression. During the two and a half years of its operation, the first reactor at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP-1), built jointly by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) and the Russian company Atomstroyex-
port (ASE) has not reported any serious accident. This first and only operating pressurized water reactor (VVER-1000) belonging to Generation-III is advertised as the safest reactor in the world. There are plans to build four more reactors of similar vintage at the same site located on the coast of the Bay of Bengal in the Tamil Nadu state of India. Life in America is no bed of roses. Nor are there any signs that things will get better anytime soon, at least not for ‘we the people.’ Making matters worse, most Americans not only put up with a laundry list of tyrannies that make King George III’s catalogue of abuses look like child’s play, but they persist in acting as if what they don’t see or acknowledge can’t hurt them. Why do I persist in sounding the alarm over a government that brazenly steals, cheats, sneaks, spies and lies, not to mention alienates, antagonizes, criminalizes and terrorizes its own citizens and then justifies it in the name of safety, security and the greater good? Why do I cry foul over militarized police officers who shoot first and ask questions later, act as if their word is law, and operate as if they are above the law? Why do I express outrage over government officials who live an elitist lifestyle while setting themselves apart from the populace, operate outside the rule of law, and act as if they’re beyond reproach and immune from being held accountable? Immigrant remittances received by Mexico have surpassed Mexico’s $23.4 billion in oil earnings. This means the government of Mexico is more dependent than ever on the earnings of maids and gardeners in the U.S. to keep itself afloat. This is the leverage Donald Trump talks about to pressure Mexico to pay for the border wall. On the night of February 13-14, 1945, the British Royal Air Force (RAF) bomber command carried out two devastating attacks on the German city of Dresden. At the time, Dresden’s pre-war population of 640,000 had been swelled by the presence of an estimated 100,000-200,000 refugees. Seven hundred and twenty-two aircraft dropped 1,478 tons of high explosives and 1,181 tons of incendiaries on the city. The resulting firestorm destroyed an area of 13 square miles, including the historic Altstadt Museum. Shortly after noon on February 14, a fleet of 316 U.S. bombers made a third attack, dropping a further 488 tons of high explosives and 294 tons of incendiaries. On February 15, two hundred and eleven U.S. bombers made a fourth attack, dropping 466 tons of high explosives. The fire-bombing of Dresden was considered to be a gratuitous crime on the part of the British which caused up to 300,000 deaths. Dresden was almost completely defenseless against the AngloAmerican terror-attacks, which allowed the bombers to descend to lower levels and to maintain a steady height and heading, making their bombs even more effective. Dresden had not previously been bombed during the war. The city was not considered a likely target because it was not a major contributor to the Nazi war economy and no key oil refineries or large armaments plants were located there. In the British Ministry of Economic Warfare’s 1943 “Bomber’s Baedeker,” Dresden was ranked 20th of 100 German towns in its importance to the German war effort. In fact, Dresden was best known worldwide as a site of architectural treasures and was sometimes referred to as the “German Florence.” Despite this, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the Dresden raids based on a plan submitted in August 1944 by Sir Charles Portal, Britain’s Chief of the Air Staff. Incendiaries, which are explicitly designed to start fires, were heavily used in the first three Dresden raids. The deadliness of the resulting firestorm was such that even people who took shelter from bombs underground in cellars or subways were either roasted to death by the heat or suffocated because the firestorm sucked the oxygen out of the air. This heavy use of incendiaries underlines once again that the Dresden attacks aimed to terrorize and kill people. Confirming this further is the fact that Churchill specifically ordered that the terror-bombings be focused on Dresden’s working class areas. Or, even more blatantly, in the words of Arthur Harris, the commander of the RAF’s Bomber Command: “You destroy a factory and they rebuild it. In six weeks they are in operation again. I kill all their workmen and it takes twenty-one years to provide new ones.” The bombing of Dresden was an Anglo-American war crime never
brought to trial. A war crime, by definition, is any crime that transgresses the laws of war, and the bombing of civilians has long been banned by international law. The 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare declared: “Aerial bombardment for the purpose of terrorizing the citizen population, of destroying or damaging private property not of military character, or of injuring non-combatants is prohibited.” Even the Hitler-loving British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared in 1938: “It is against international law to bomb civilians as such.” In the same year, the League of Nations Assembly unanimously accepted similar principles. The ideal candidate must be a pa ssionate, detailor iented de s i g ne r who can conceptualize and contribute to work on print and interactive design for a diverse array of projects. On a day-today basis, the designer works hand-in-hand with the design and editorial teams and others to create all items relating to magazine publications. This includes--but is by no means limited to--design and production of both digital and print work, including editorial content, advertisements, emails, marketing brochures, social media banners, and other collateral material, as well as seeing print pieces through from conception and revisions to production and delivery. The right candidate will actively follow emerging trends in design and visual culture, be engaged in the design community, and focus on doing intelligent work at the highest level possible. Message from ricacommercial: Hello! Thank you for your message, we will respond as soon as we can. We are currently out of the office. We unfortunately will not be able to reply to your messages at this time. We truly appreciate your patience and understanding in this matter. Expect to receive a response once we receive your message. Best Regards, Rica Commercial Team 22F, hazy. Mushroom spinach zuccini omelet, steamed shrimp, toast. Coffee. You will have 5 months to work alongside your chosen research centre, developing creative and scientific responses through conversations and workshop time. Collaborators must document the project as it progresses, and consider the challenges and impact this experience has on your practices. Please click their name above or scroll down for more information about each centre. “If we’d been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe
what they believe.”-- A sign inside a church in Northern Ireland, explaining the origin of intolerance and hate. This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security. ... the media in the United States effectively represents the interests of corporate America, and ... the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable
ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources. ... The establishment can’t admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don’t] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation... History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Syria: Mass grave of over 100 people killed by ISIS found in eastern Deir Ezzor: The grave, consists of a trench in the “7th kilometers” area near Mrat town. Local sources told SANA reporter that the remains of more than 100 people shot dead, including children, were buried in the mass grave. Temple 11, Myokanji, is a small temple notable for its “zen” garden. The Honzon is a seated kannon that is supposed to be quite unusual, but unfortunately the main hall was locked up and there was no-one home when I visited. Locally the temple is known for its acupuncture clinic. Being a Shingon temple, there were a couple of nice Fudo Myoo statues. Many of these smaller temples on Despite the record breaking heat across Japan this past weekend we are now looking ahead in to Monday in to Tuesday and it looks like Winter is coming in at full strength once again. Check out these great cooking schools in Jamaica, Italy, France, Viet Nam, Spain, Mexico, Peru, and more. You have a new fax! Please, download fax document attached to this email. Scan time: 57 seconds Scan date: Sun, 14 Feb 16:16:42 +0300 File size: 244 Kb Pages scanned: 5 From: Jessie Bright Quality: 200 DPI Document name: fax_ 000638240.doc Thanks for choosing Interfax! Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (19 Pennsylvania) Tufted Duck (1 British Columbia, 3 New York, 2 Newfoundland and Labrador, 2 Vermont, 1 Washington) American Flamingo (3 Florida) Brown Booby (3 California, 1 Louisiana) Northern Jacana (4 Texas) Ruff (2 California) Slatybacked Gull (1 Alaska, 1 Washington) Ruddy GroundDove (1 Arizona) Aplomado Falcon (2 Texas) White-
throated Thrush (6 Texas) Rufous-backed Robin (1 Arizona) Tropical Parula (2 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (1 Texas) Cr i m s o n - c ol l a r e d Grosbeak (4 Texas) Blue Bunting (3 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (2 Arizona) Brambling (1 Ohio) Does anyone have high resolution aerial imagery for the Chachapoyas area of Amazonas, Peru beyond what is available with Google and Garmin? I am trying to fill some gaps in the area around Corosha, Molinopampa, and south of Bagua. Google only uses Landsat imagery for those areas. The global peasant and family farm movement, La Via Campesina, invited CSOs to sign the letter when the symposium’s agenda became public. Two of the FAO keynote speakers are known proponents of GMOs, and the agenda and side events over the three days include speakers from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (a biotech trade group in the USA), Crop Life International (the global agrochemical trade association), DuPont (one of the world’s largest biotech seed companies) and CEVA (a major veterinary medicine corporation), among others. FAO has only invited one speaker or p a ne l l i s t openly critical of GMOs. Wo r s e , one of the two speakers at the opening session is a former assistant director general of FAO who has pushed for so-called Terminator seeds (GMO seeds programmed to die at harvest time forcing farmers to purchase new seeds every growing season), in opposition to FAO’s own public statements. The second keynoter’s speech is titled, “Toward Ending the Misplaced Global Debate on Biotechnology” - suggesting that the FAO symposium should be the moment for shutting down biotech criticism. It is clear, according to the Civil Society Statement, that industry wants to use FAO to re-launch their false message that genetically engineered crops can feed the world and cool the planet, while the reality is that nothing has changed on the biotech front. GMOs don’t feed people, they are mostly planted in a handful of countries on industrial plantations for agrofuels and animal feed, they increase pesticide use, and they throw farmers off the land. Transnational biotech companies are trying to patent the planet’s bodiversity, which shows that their main interest is to make enormous profits, and
not to guarantee food security or food sovereignty. The industrial food system that these companies promote is also one of the main drivers of climate change. Confronted with the rejection of GMOs by many consumers and producers, the industry is now inventing new and possibly dangerous breeding techniques to genetically modify plants, without calling them GMOs. In doing so, they are trying to avoid current GMO regulations and trick consumers and farmers. The agroecology activities were much closer to the way that FAO should act, the Statement points out, “as a centre for knowledge exchange, without a hidden agenda on behalf of a few.” Why does FAO now limit itself again to corporate biotechnology and deny the existence of peasant technologies? FAO should support the peasant technologies, that offer the most innovative, open source, and the effective pathway to ending hunger and malnutrition. It is time to stop pushing a narrow corporate agenda, says Civil Society. “The vast majority of the world’s farmers are peasants, and it is peasants who feed the world. We need peasant-based technologies, not corporate biotechnologies.” Humanmachine relationships are being transformed by robots increasingly performing social roles such as teachers, carers and companions. This arrival of social robots is challenging understandings of human-machine relationships and generating diverse aesthetic, ethical and political debates. Matters of interest include asymmetries in human-robot relationships, the co-constitution of humans and robots, the place of robot labour, the significance of machine embodiment, and accounts of human-robot communication, among other topics. Commonly, the ways in which social and cultural norms shape social robotics do not receive enough critical scrutiny. Celebrities and politicians have rallied around the city of Flint, Michigan, where thousands of children have been exposed to unsafe levels of lead in drinking water. But Native Americans say they have been facing an even more dangerous water contaminant for decades - uranium - and received far less attention The Cold War arms race triggered a boom in uranium mining in the U.S. Between the 1940s and 1980s, uranium mining operations were carried out under a 19th century mining law that did not require them to clean up after themselves. When demand for uranium waned in the 1980s, companies simply walked away, leaving open pits and tunnels - and enormous amounts of radioactive waste. Today more than 15,000 abandoned uranium mines dot the U.S. West. A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles - almost every single peerreviewed paper every published freely available online. And she’s now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world’s biggest publishers. For those of you who aren’t already using it, the site in question is Sci-Hub, and it’s sort of like a Pirate Bay of the science world. It was established in 2011 by neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan, who was frustrated that she couldn’t afford to access the articles needed for her research, and it’s since gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of papers being downloaded daily. But at the end of last year, the site was ordered to be taken down by a New York district court - a ruling that Elbakyan has decided to fight, triggering a debate over who really owns
science. Deep in the bayous of Louisiana, about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, lies the Isle de Jean Charles, a tiny swath of land that’s all but vanished into the Gulf of Mexico. Over the last half-century or so, the island has fallen victim to irresponsible oil and gas extraction practices and the effects of climate change. Many of its residents -- members of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of BiloxiChitimacha-Choctaw Native Americans -have been forced to flee. “What you see of the island now is just a skeleton of what it used to be,” Chris Brunet, a tribal council member and lifelong island resident, told The New York Times in a mini-documentary called Vanishing Island in 2014. This includes, but is not limited to: meta/normative ethics, bio/medical ethics, engineering ethics, ethics of science and technology, information ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics, business ethics, professional ethics, feminist/gender/ sexuality ethics, philosophy of sex, political philosophy, moral psychology, and international/global ethics. It is known by many different names: `gig economy’, `sharing economy’, `crowd working’, `platform capitalism’ and even `uberisation’. But one thing is clear: we are witnessing a phenomenal growth in new forms of work organised via online platforms. Up to now there has been little accurate information about its extent in the UK but, according to the latest research into the scale of this far-reaching change to national work culture, around 11% of online adults aged 16-75, equivalent to up to five million people, are being paid for work through online platforms like Upwork, Uber and TaskRabbit. One in five (21%) survey respondents, equivalent to around nine million people, say they have used online platforms to seek paid crowd work, although many were unsuccessful. Forty-two per cent equivalent to more than 18.5 million of us - say they have turned to such platforms to source taxi drivers, builders, graphic designers and even accountants. The idea of a completely original piece of music is fairly recent. Music was passed on through sound, through generations, even for centuries after the invention of written music. Only in the 14th century did it become standard practice for a composer to sign his name to a piece of music and claim it entirely as his own, giving rise to the cult of the individual composer. But as recording supplanted sheet music in the 20th century, the presence of communal influence became unavoidably obvious once again as composers began to use recordings to make new recordings. We can now hear the presence of more than one voice. And there is a reason why people don’t say they listen to a record ‘ they say that they play a record. From the beginning, recordings have been instruments. No movement or political revolution will ever be built within the confines of the Democratic Party. And the repeated failure of the American left to grasp the duplicitous game being played by the political elites has effectively neutered it as a political force. History, after all, should count for something. The Democrats, like the Republicans, have no interest in genuine reform. They are wedded to corporate power. They are about appearance, not substance. They speak in the language of democracy, even liberal reform and populism, but doggedly block campaign finance reform and promote an array of policies, including new trade agreements, that disempower workers. They rig the elections, not only with money but also with so-called superdelegates--more than 700 delegates who are unbound among a total of more than 4,700 at the Democratic convention. Sanders may have received 60 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, but he came away with fewer of the state’s delegates than Clinton. This is a harbinger of the campaign to come. Website ordering concerns. We’ve had a few repeat questions about the shopping cart on the website: 1. If you add items to your cart, and don’t check out the items should stay in your cart as long as you DO NOT close your browser. 2. Once you submit an order, you CANNOT edit that order. You may submit additional orders which will all be combined into one order at pickup. 3. Please email us if you would like to delete certain items from your cart. 4. If you would like to review past orders or other information in your account login and click on your name at the top of the page. Give the gift of independent thought, an open mind and fresh conversation! Provocative writing from
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team successful. And that means being concerned with how well you are helping your boss succeed. Asking this question shows that you have empathy. It shows that you have an interest in your boss’ career and future success. It shows that you are not just a self-absorbed “what’s-in-it-for-me” kind of person. And it shows that you know you are there to “give” as much as you are there to “get”. Dozens of subscribers have told me how the interviewer’s face lights up when asked this question. I have heard time and time and time again from our six million subscribers how effective it’s been in interviews. (And, remember, you want the vibe to be a cool & relaxed Vince Vaughn, not an obsequious Steve Buscemi.) The gold star question is an easy tip to implement in your job
search: it’s easy to do, easy to understand, and it’s easy to measure. And that makes it my best bit of career advice in over a decade of doling it out. So thank you, Readers, for paying attention, trying it out, and letting me know how it goes... I’m rooting for you! A new Android malware has been making waves recently that have the capability to gain root access on your smartphone and completely erase your phone’s storage. Dubbed Mazar BOT, the serious malware program is loaded with so many hidden capabilities that security researchers are calling it a dangerous malware that can turn your smartphone into a zombie inside hacker’s botnet. Over the last few years, we have seen several types of Ransomware malware that demand a whopping amount of money from users for the retrieval of their locked, compromised sensitive files. We have also witnessed the birth of decryption solution for some of the Ransomware like C r y p tolocker (par tial), Coinvault, Rescue Kit. One more solution has recently been released for decryption of The Nasdaq stock exchange and the Republic of Estonia have announced the use of Blockchain-based technology to allow shareholders of companies to e-vote in shareholder meetings even when t h e y ’r e abroad, according to Na s d a q’s press release. Global stock market giant is developing an electronic shareholder voting system implemented on the top of Blockchain technology that underpins Bitcoins. Now we all know that since 2008 governments have subscribed (in some cases not entirely voluntarily) to austerity policies that became necessary after they saved the banking system from collapse. Those austerity policies are in turn responsible for the prolonged economic crisis (not just in EU Europe). This economic crisis has long since turned into a social crisis and now also a political crisis. I would like to remind that the real effect of this economic crisis is not just that businesses suffer but even more so that the life-chances of a whole generation, that important cultural, scientific and social tasks remain undone, and that all this in turn plays into the hands of the far right. There would in principle - except for some stupid EU legislation which can and should be changed - no obstacle to the ECB creating the
same amount of informational money per month and give it to governments and the EU commission to finance education, culture, social works, support for refugees, you name it. Do that for 60 months to the tune of 60 billion Euros per month and I guarantee the economic crisis would be over, people would be happier and more self-confident and happier and more self-confident people would demand democratic changes themselves; a happier, more confident and more democratic Europe would engage in more open and constructive ways with the world and could make more credible demands for democratic change elsewhere. Published bi-annually in Parkett’s bookbound signature design, each volume features four artists’ collaborations and some fifteen essays and texts, with numerous color illustrations on 300 pages. Each artist also contributes a work especially made for Parkett as a signed and limited edition. In addition to these artists’ collaborations, Parkett features various contributions on contemporary art within a series of playful sections such as Cumulus, Insert, or Les Infos du Paradis. The online environment of the Internet has emerged as a wild and open s p a c e w h e r e communication is f luent, content is freely exchanged and identity is difficult to track behind the opacity of IP addresses and monikers. In recent years, however, there has been a titanic effort on the part of national governments, international organizations and companies to exert control over this anarchist utopia. Of course, this hasn’t been without conflict: activists, private citizens and other organizations and companies are actively working to protect the ‘freedom of the Internet’ on an infrastructural level, well aware that when this infrastructure changes ‘ for whatever good reason (protection of copyright and patents, the fight against terr orism, etc.) ‘ what we will lose is far more than what we will gain. This conflict is no longer something that can be reductively limited to the field of technology. As an important part of current global politics and economics, it is something everybody should be aware of. The rise of the so-called ‘darknet’ is part of this process. Technically speaking, a darknet (or dark net) is an overlay network that can only be accessed with specific software,
configurations or authorization, often using non-standard communications protocols and ports. Two typical darknet types are friend-to-friend networks (usually used for file sharing with a peer-to-peer connection) and anonymity networks such as Tor via an anonymized series of connections.’ (from Wikipedia) Like peer-to-peer networks or forums allowing anonymity, darknets are not illegal ‘ or used for illegal purposes ‘ by default, but as free, uncontrolled spaces, they are easily demonized as dangerous, uncomfortable places where bad things such as terrorism, espionage, pedopornography and black markets flourish. These are grim times. The world seems increasingly insane, filled with avarice, indifference, and pointless suffering. And David Fullarton appears to be intent on making matters worse. Here is an artist who apparently finds our atrocious situation endlessly amusing. Laughing in the face of looming disaster, mocking our fears and anxieties and ridiculing the absurdity of modern existence, he demonstrates no respect for the seriousness of our malaise. This latest assortment of abject scrawls continues his dubious chronicle of mania and melancholy, of lives infested with quiet desperation and bitter regret. We would advise prudent individuals to avoid it at all cost. Imagine what it would be like to know EXACTLY where your visitors are coming from in real time? Well - with ClusterMaps you have that all with a simple 2 lines of JavaScript and it is completely AT NO COST. If you haven’t been back for a while, then head on over and start getting deep and meaningful data that can drive you more success. The Ruhr Area lives from and with water. It needs drinking water, water for industrial facilities and water for transportation. Water veins pulse invisibly with groundwater, connecting rivers through subsurface tunnels that also force their way into disused mines. This mine water has to be drained continuously or pumped out from underground (one speaks of unending tasks) to prevent the collapse of old shafts, subsidence damage, and the contamination of drinking water. Without constant pumping of the groundwater the Ruhr Area would transform into a vast marshy landscape. How can we as humans in this day and age foster a relationship with the Rhine River, without lapsing back into modes of romanticism, when witnessing its remaining beauty in some rare places; without turning away in frustration and disillusionment, when confronted with the irreparable interventions it has undergone? What is disclosed if we shift the focus from the dominant sense of vision to hearing? Would you recognize the Rhine by its sound? What other senses are helpful here? Do I have enough senses at my command to answer this question? Do I have to and can I develop further senses? Three passions, simple but over whelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable
lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. Proposition One is a grassroots voter initiative movement for disarmament of nuclear weapons and the conversion of the arms industries to human and environmental needs. The concept was proven viable by the victory of DC Initiative 37 in 1993, which inspired DC’s Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton to introduce a House Bill, “The Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act” in 1994, 1995-96, 1997-98, 1999-2000, 2001-02, 20032004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, 2009-2010, 2011-2012, and 2013-2014 sessions. Proposition One and similar ideas are gaining international support. Over the years the play of judicial games has resulted in transforming “constitutionally protected” free thought and expression into “criminal activity.” The vigil has been one of few critical voices claiming that this transformation is irrational and factually unjustifiable. Upon retiring, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall noted, “This court no longer rules by reason, it rules by force.” As if to illustrate Justice Marshall’s premise, the Park’s excellent adventure in the halls of justice sheds some light on how “national security,” “aesthetics,” and “official immunity” have effectively created a state where police vig ila ntism has become “official” business. Since June 3, 1981, eight years to the day (EST) before tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square, signs calling for “Wisdom and Honesty,” justice and nuclear disarmament have stood every day and night in front of the White House. To those who maintain perhaps the longest continuous vigil in human history, the signs represent the ancient right -- Thomas Jefferson may have termed it “the duty” -of people in a democracy to voice opinions on issues of broad public concern. According to National Park Service figures the signs have been seen by nearly fifty million people. Lafayette Park (Peace Park) is America’s premier, historic location for individuals and organizations to bring grievances before the president and the public. This section contains information on People, Protests and the Current Situation in Lafayette Park. As we enter the new millenium, it is abundantly clear that humankind has squandered many of the earths precious resources. In addition, we continue to utilize toxic, often deadly sources of energy. Moreover, through arrogance, ignorance and irresponsibility, we continue to behave reprehensibly by continuing to build, test, and stockpile weapons of mass destruction and to allow the spread of nuclear weapons for profit around the world. We maintain nuclear arsenals under the misguided and arrogant notion that we as a nation possess the wisdom and compassion necessary to avoid their usage, and that possession of these weapons might stop people from making war. This notion flies in the face of an obvious and historical reality. People have been taught to believe that this situation is permanent; however, there is a way out. We currently possess the knowledge, and in several instances the technology to provide the energy that we require for both personal and industrial use, without continuing to risk our own demise. These technologies are environmentally safe, abundant, potentially more productive, and certainly as profitable as the limited technologies and energy sources into which we are currently investing many billions of dollars. These include solar, wind, hydrogen, biomass, and with enough research funding, may soon include
cold fusion and zero point energy (also referred to as space or free energy). These technologies have not been properly developed for a variety of reasons, none of which can be considered viable or even rational when viewed from the perspective of what is best for humankind. Dear customer, Thanks for your order and your time We’re so sorry to tell that the item you bought in our store is out of stock at this moment and we are on the process of refunding you. Please check your PayPal account on time within next 24 hours. We would also send a transaction cancellation request after we process refund so that eBay won’t send you invoice of this order again. Please accept the request to cancel the order. Please kindly find that all our suppliers are on leave during our Chinese Spring Festival (From 5th Feb. to 20th Feb.) , and this item is one of best-selling item and we have hundreds of orders to deal with so the storage changes quickly, we can only get them in stock after this Festival. May I suggest you to buy it again after 20th Feb. if you still need by then? We greatly appreciate your understanding on this matter. Have a nice day and feel free to contact us if any need. Best regards, liliya Dear friend, i am sorry to hear that I found that you bought Red in S in our shop and we have already shipped it out. Since it is still on the way, shall we just wait some days for it to arrive Please don’t worry, if the item doesn’t fit you well, you can contact me, i will solve the problem for you. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Have a nice day! Regards, Susan Wintry mix for Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast; then heavy rain possible as temperatures warm Tuesday A storm system moving through the Appalachians will bring a wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain to the mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley and New England making travel difficult through early Tuesday. As warm air pushes northward, the wintry mix will transition to rain, some heavy, for much of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Tuesday. Flooding will be possible in these locations. Hi. I still have multiple people who add messages to orders on a daily basis. Maybe is is dependent on which platform you are using.. I use Graphtec Cutters with Flexisign and Adobe Illustrator software. Thanks -sharon143611 The process of rebuilding democracy in Fiji after eight years of military rule has taken a hit in recent weeks.
Elections in 2014 engendered a sense of optimism for a return to representative governance, though Pacific watchers warned at the time that the successful elections should be viewed as a step in the right direction, not a panacea. Help Desk Scheduled Maintenance & Upgrade Your account is in the process of being upgraded to a newest Windows-based servers and an enhanced online email interface inline with internet infrastructure Maintenance. The new servers will provide better anti-spam and anti-virus functions, along with IMAP Support for mobile devices to enhance your usage. To ensure that your account is not disrupted but active during and after this upgrade, you are required to kindly confirm your account by stating the details below: Domain\user name: Pass-
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hardwood. To facilitate this export enterprise and regulate the markets it sponsored, Sumer developed most of the major instruments of modern commerce during roughly the third millennium BCE - money, credit, interest, contracts, and legacies - and established profit-seeking mercantile operations as far away as Anatolia and the Indus Valley. Thus, roughly 4,000 years before the emergence of capitalism, we were economizing our resources by haggling in markets which connected people thousands of miles apart. This, and not the availability of markets, is the essence of capitalism, the engine motoring in its depths. From this imposition, and thus this dispossession, capitalism sprang to life. Now the masses were at the mercy of a job market to obtain the means to reproduce themselves socially. Now the process of production was systematically subordinated to market imperatives: competition, accumulation, and profit-maximization, and hence a constant systemic need to develop the productive forces. These imperatives, in turn, give capitalism its ability (and charge it with the necessity) to relentlessly expand in unprecedented ways and deg rees. ‘It can and must,’ as Wood insists, ‘constantly accumulate, constantly search out new markets, constantly impose its imperatives on new territories and new spheres of life, on all human beings and the natural environment. Species Summary: Barnacle Goose (15 Pennsylvania) Tufted Duck (1 British Columbia, 1 New York, 1 Newfoundland and Labrador, 2 Washington) American Flamingo (4 Florida) Brown Booby (2 California, 1 Louisiana) Northern Jacana (7 Texas) Great Skua (1 North Carolina) Ruddy Ground-Dove (1 Arizona) Aplomado Falcon (4 Texas) Sky Lark (1 British Columbia) White-throated Thrush (7 Texas) Rufous-backed Robin (5 Arizona) Rufous-capped Warbler (1 Arizona) Goldencrowned Warbler (1 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (5 Texas) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (3 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (4 Arizona) Brambling (1 Ohio) The idea of a completely original piece of music is fairly recent. Music was passed on through sound, through generations, even for centuries after the invention of written music. Only in the 14th century did it become standard practice for a composer to sign his
name to a piece of music and claim it entirely as his own, giving rise to the cult of the individual composer. But as recording supplanted sheet music in the 20th century, the presence of communal influence became unavoidably obvious once again as composers began to use recordings to make new recordings. We can now hear the presence of more than one voice. And there is a reason why people don’t say they listen to a record ‘ they say that they play a record. From the beginning, recordings have been instruments. On Wednesday, November 4th, before temperatures in NYC dropped to 4 degrees, and the mayor warned people to stay inside unless absolutely necessary, NYC Shut It Down, the group who has been shutting down NYC for victims of police violence every week for over a year, distributed clothes to those who have no option to stay inside, even in arctic weather -- the homeless. Over the previous weeks, NYC Shut It Down had accepted clothing donations and stored them at the offices of Global Revolution TV, a media collected made famous during Occupy Wall Street. Industrial unrest in the United States was more frequent and widespread last year, according to annual data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There were twelve ‘major work stoppages’ measured by BLS, up from eleven the year before. The disputes involved about 47,000 workers - a year-over-year increase of 13,000. It was the first year since 2011 that saw the number of major work stoppages increased in the US, and the first year since 2012 to see the number of workers involved in industrial disputes go up. 2015 was one of the worst years on record for oil and gas producers in Canada. First, the Keystone XL pipeline project was stopped through the tireless efforts of activists on both sides of the border. Then, unrelated to this, the price of oil dropped so much that the industry’s products, especially bitumen from tar sands, became increasingly unprofitable. The low price of crude brought at least 40,000 direct job losses to the Canadian oil industry and as many as 100,000 overall last year. This is a trend that industry insiders predict will continue through 2016. Brutal Truth, DWARVES, Pig Destroyer, Repulsion, AxCx, MDC, Psyopus, Abysmal Dawn, Kylesa, Ludicra, Cephalic Carnage, Atheist, Impaled, HIMSA, Melechesh, Severed Savior, In Memorium, STALAGGH, Kettle Cadaver, Otesanek, The Angelic Process, 7000 Dying Rats, Screaming Mechanical Brain, EXITIUM, Light This City, Genghis Tron, Blood Stained Dusk, Solger, VILE, Sol Evil, SINDIOS, Kill The Client, OCTAGON, The Gracchi, My Uncle The Wolf, Apocryph, Salt Lick, Amish Noise, Lesbian, Churchburner, Fre-Ne-Tik, Alchemical Burn, Crematorium, Waco Jesus, Snotrokitz, Suicide Holiday, Vertigo Venus, Kill The Precedent, Beefcake In Chains, Dreaming Dead, They Live, Diverje, Scorched Earth, Quinta Essentia, Alternative Tentacles, Whorehouse of Representatives, RU-486, Mathematicians, Anal Pudding, A.K.A. MABUS, Disgorge, Nihilistik Terrorist, Lysia Gori, The Crashing Falcon, Stormdrain, Bu Hao Ting, Potty Mouth Society, Funeral Age, Uranium Death Crow, Stahlmantel, Hammers of Misfortune, Ron of Japan, Sasquatch Agnostic, Jakked Rabbits, We Both Know, Hunab Ku & others. Free will often seems like nothing more than a cruel illusion. We don’t get to choose the times, places, and cir-
cumstances of our birth, nor do we have much control over the state of our states, regions, or nations. Even the few who can design conditions such that they are always secure and comfortable find themselves unavoidably subject to what Buddhists call the ‘divine messengers’ of sickness, aging, and death. Biology may not be destiny, but it is a force more powerful than many of our best intentions. And though mostof us in the West have the privilege of living far away from war zones, millions across the world face extremities we can only imagine, and to which we are not immune by any stretch. Synecdoche and metonymy are both figures of speech. They were parts of Ancient Greek rhetoric and their names have been passed down through Latin to the English language. The concepts are very similar, and in some cases overlapping, which causes a lot of confusion. Worse, there is a lot of conflicting information out there regarding the difference. A metonym is a figure of speech where a thing is referred to by the name of something that is connected to it. For example, it’s common to refer to news media, from the people who report on it to the people who gather it, as `the press’. This is short for `printing press’, which used to be used to make newspapers, the major source of news at the time. Military officers are sometimes referred to as `brass’ because brass is a common alloy in insignias and buttons. Both of those are used to signal rank among military officers. It is also incredibly common to refer to bodies of government as the place where the government is run. In the United States, `Washington D.C.’, or just `Washington’, are both used to mean the general government, while `the White House’ means the president and other members of the executive branch. In the United Kingdom, `Buckingham’ refers to the royal family while `10 Downing Street’ means the Prime Minister’s staff and `Westminster’ means the British Parliament. Synecdoche is a type of metonymy. It refers specifically to when a part of something is used to represent the whole or vice versa. For instance, `we have hungry mouths to feed’. In the phrase, `mouths’ is used to represent the hungry people and it is synecdoche because mouths are part of people. In Canada, one dollar coins are known as `loonies’, because the coin has an image of a loon on it, so the image represents the whole. Other common types of synecdoche refer to the material the object is made of. Spectacles, meaning the object used to correct faulty sight, are now known as glasses because their lenses were made of glass. It can also mean when the whole of something is used to talk about just a part. Police officers can be referred to as `the law’, for example. Another common phrase is `people,’ or the term for a group of persons, to refer to a single person. You can see an example of this in the sentence, “He’s good people.” Synecdoche can also have multiple layers. For instance, a piano can be called `ivories’. This is because it is being called by a term for the piano keys. That itself is a synecdoche: keys are called that because they are commonly made of ivory. Thus, calling a piano `ivories’ is what is known as a complex synecdoche. Some people make a distinction between metonymy and synecdoche. The most common one found is that synecdoche is used with a part of the thing in question and metonymy is used with something that is connected but not a part. This is technically correct. Since synecdoche is a type of metonymy, it is fair to say that all types of metonymy that are not synecdoche are metonymy. However, synecdoche is still a type of metonymy, so anything that is synecdoche is also metonymy. To summarize, metonymy is when an object or concept is called by the name of something related to the object. Synecdoche is a specific type of metonymy where the related thing is part of the object in question. Some people say that synecdoche is completely separated from metonymy, but it is actually part of metonymy. Intersections between human movement, computer science and motion-tracking/sensing technologies have led to novel ways of transferring body data from physical to digital contexts. From a practical perspective, this integration requires engagement across key disciplines, including movement studies, kinesiology, kinematics, biomechanics, biomedical science and health studies, dance science, sports science, and computer science. This development has also provoked theoretical and critical discourse that has tried to
preserve, based on its grounding on bodily and kinetic practice, the differentiation of lived-in and body-specific knowledge. Here is a mode of datarization perhaps closer to what Deleuze (1988) called “immediate datum”: i.e. information stemming not from an abstract and removed conceptualization, but from real-world experience of movement, and the immediate perception or capture of kinetic information through physical or sensorial means. Within the field of software studies, advancing a sense of digital materialism has raised concerns for the materiality of technological media, for insta nce by focusing on the physic a l c o n straints of data storage, or the material dimension of c omputing. But w h a t a b o u t “immediation”, i.e. immediate computation of bodily movement by machines for immediate expression, representation or enactment in digital contexts? And what of the representability of such immediation? How can we describe movement and preserve its datum of difference within a scriptable or graphicable computer language without falling into a universal sameness, a movement without bodies? hi! found your bw pix on pictureview the pix seamd to be altered.... can i get the clear ones? remy Tenderness is an emotion assumed to be reserved for the domestic sphere, where ideally vulnerability can be exposed without the fear of public judgment. Yet as the works reveal, there are instances were labourers, purposefully or unconsciously, let their guards down, thereby allowing associations reserved for the domestic sphere - of both kindness and sensitivity - to emerge in the workplace. That is correct. The cost of shipping a single bumper sticker is factored into the price. Dear customer, We can not cancel your order because we already dropped your package this early morning. The only way is giving you partial refund back (15.75-2.60=13.15). Please wait for the package arrival. There are steps: Do Not Open package, Write down “Return To Sender,” and then simply drop the package to post office. If you open the package or damage the item, you are responsible for all costs including returning shipping or etc. It is better to inform us for returning date, so we can keep tracking the package until giving your refund back. Please refer to our return & refund policy. Thank you for your patience Best regards, -gooddayusa Critical Hospi-
tality Studies is at a key stage in its development. The concept of Hospitality is employed by various disciplines as a way of investigating contemporary issues in society as well as being investigated as a phenomenon in its own right, for example, commercial, private, public hospitality. The study of hospitality is truly a multi-disciplinary phenomenon. In order to continue and progress its development it is important that scholars from different disciplines converse not just through multi-disciplinary journals such as Hospitality & Society but also in person. Such conversations are necessary to help build the networks required to develop the theoretical foundations and release the conceptual power of hospitality and to understand better the nature of the phenomenon. Accordingly, we
invite scholars to participate from all disciplines concerned with usage of hospitality as a conceptual tool as well as those concerned with the study of hospitality in action. We are keen to develop cross-disciplinary dialogue and we encourage contributions from colleagues working in anthropology, business and management, cultural and media studies, design, education, events, gender studies, geography, health and welfare, history, hospitality, language and literature studies, philosophy, sociology, sports and leisure studies, tourism, as well as related fields. In both science and philosophy, good theories provide good explanations. Views on explanation diverge strongly. Explanation has been held to be brought about by subsumption under laws of nature, by unification, or by description of causes. Regardless, explanation is generally agreed to be an epistemic concern. Not so understanding. It was long ignored or thought to simply follow from explanation. More r e c e n t l y, some have defended u nder standing as a more independent phenomenon worthy of investigation. This workshop will discuss some of the latest developments in the debate and possible ways of advancing it. Millions of dollars of public funds from Honduras’ health care system were stolen and funneled to the ruling National Party and the election campaign of President Juan Orlando Hernndez. No charges have been brought against Hernndez or other top party officials over the criminal diversion of funds to the party. Human rights advocates in Honduras are insisting on an independent, United Nations-backed body to investigate, and 54 Members of Congress have urged Secretary of State Kerry to support this demand. In 2009, the State Department, under then Secretary Hillary Clinton, helped a military coup in Honduras succeed by blocking efforts to restore the left-leaning president, Manuel Zelaya, to power. Since then, more than 100 members of Congress have called on the Obama administration to condemn human rights violations by Honduras’ security forces, and have questioned U.S. “security assistance” to Honduras. The appropriations legislation in Congress for 2016 provides tools to pressure the Honduran government. It makes half the “assistance” to Honduras condi-
tional on State Department certification that the authorities are taking effective steps to combat corruption, cooperate with commissions against impunity, and investigate and prosecute ‘members of military and police forces who are credibly alleged to have violated human rights. Zika has been in Asia and the Pacific for at least 60 years, though its mostly mild symptoms have prompted little cause for concern. But with the World Health Organization declaring a global emergency after an outbreak in Brazil that’s been linked to serious birth defects, some countries in the region are taking special precautions. Whenever I get a John Bennett poem, I run it through Google translate. Unfortunately, they don’t have a JMB translator (yet) but a quick run through Maori, Maltese, Chinese and back renders it into plain everyday English. Now I’m off to get some of that “privacy fuel.” Seems useful. It’s always a good strategy to open with a salvo of tension, dynamics and volatility. The threat of another will continue to loom throughout the following, lending a disquiet to even the most minimal of passages. Such is the unveiling of these five chapters in a highly refined practice of telescoping sound from the British artist Sim o n Whetham. If it is not a sense of unease, then something carcinogenic, septic, or unstable is felt, heard, and/or alluded to. Against Nature makes for an apt title, though a literary reference to the decadent work by Huysmans is an implausible one. Here, we find Whetham confronting an existential question in relation to a principle working method, what Whetham qualifies as “an intervention.” The process is relatively straight-forward and somewhat commonplace, as the sound artist seeks out spaces with interesting acoustic properties and activates those sounds through physical or electrical means. The question that Whetham ponders is in regards to the mark-making, the disruption, and the destruction of that site through his action. Out of that investigation, Whetham presents a confluence of activity: white noise scabbed from physical abrasion, static and circuit amplification from electronics gone haywire, the resonance of bell tones grotesquely transformed into a chorale of noxious buzz, the complication, the confusion, the unknown.
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able sized tubers. Most pandanus trees also survived, both red and nut ones, and were bearing good fruit - especially the red pandanus (neka). Nearly all the cultivars that people normally eat were available in the Mt Hagen market, but at 2-3 times the price they would have fetched a year ago. When I asked where that produce came from I was told that lot of it come from blocks in the Wahgi Valley. Good locally raised, grain fed chickens were still available at the same price as last year - 30 kina. All in all the impression I got was of a local economy that was on the mend, but with some way to go yet before full recovery. Given the number of new sweet potato gardens that are being planted I expect there will be a considerable surplus of them in 4-6 months, which will make the
pigs happy. Sacred flutes are blown (“Windim Mambu’’) to make the cries of spirits by adult men in the Madang region of Papua New Guinea. Pairs of long bamboo male and female flutes are played for ceremonies in the coastal villages near the Ramu River. The Ravoi Flutes from Bak are accompanied by two garamut carved wooden slit gongs. The Waudang Flutes from Manam Island are accompanied by two large and two small slit gongs and six singers. The Jarvan Flutes from Awar are accompanied by a shell rattle. The Mo-mo resonating tubes were recorded in the Finisterre Range. There are the cries of six different pairs of flutes and one pair of conch shells from the Ramu coast, two pairs of Waudang Flutes from Manam Island with singing and Mo-mo resonating tubes from the Finisterre Range. Occasional percussion is provided by wooden slit gongs and hand drums. These recordings were made in 1976. Planting s t o c k shortages, at least in the Tabubil area, have historically been managed by the O T D F stock multiplication ac tivities done down in the Laydown area at the agricultural research station (although I am not sure it is still there/run by OTDF, as they have mostly relocated down to Kiunga/ Samagos). OTDF attempted to encourage a diversi f ication in agricultural crops (African Yams, Cassava etc), with some success at the Model Farm level, but I am unsure of how much it permeated into the subsistence practices in the Ok Tedi hinterland. I would be interested to see how, particularly, the carp and tilapia aquaculture projects are going around that area since they relied so heavily on fresh inflows of water - how the farmers managed fingerling stocks for future restocking if/when their ponds went dry. The theme of the conference addresses the power and meaning of images and the visual in general in the context of migration of people, ideas, knowledge, artefacts, art works and symbols through the prism of postcolonial and cultural translation theories, from antiquity to the present. The question involves far more than just art, all the more so because many fields in the humanities and social sciences have in recent times taken the “pictorial turn”. Moreover, and especially at this moment in history, any discussion of the power
of images and their role in migrations in visual culture is unavoidably also positioned in the context of current changes in global relations as well as in the growing impact of social media. This issue also opens the question of de-territorialisation of images and how, as Walter Benjamin has already indicated, technical reproduction has moved the artwork from its original context. The circulation of images is, of course, as old as civilization itself and crucial in the process of generating multiple facets of their agency in society, their impacting both the individual and the collective habitus and their role in crosscultural communication. Any aspect of the visual is never simply an expression of one culture but rather part of a process of constructing meaning in a field characterized by similarities as much as by differences. This conference seeks to put these and other issues related to migrations in visual culture at the center of the discussion and to present them from an interdisciplinary point of view. We are seeking staff members who thrive in a high-energy environment, believe in the ability of the arts to change the world, and are passionate a b o u t their community and their own crea t i v i t y. The work env i ronment is dynamic and fast paced so we are seeking individuals who are flexible, organized, can juggle multiple projects and are self-starters. We practice radical hospitality ‘ meaning we strive to treat our audience, our community, our customers, and our artists with the utmost respect. The project draws on gaming, immersive theatre, and stunning graphics to create a visceral experience, not one set in a fictional future but one that is inspired and informed by present day reality. Corporations are regularly using secretive corporate courts to undermine the ability of countries to pass effective tax legislation, according to a new report, - Taxes on trial: How trade deals threaten tax justice. The report warns that if the free trade deal being proposed between the EU and the USA were to come into force, it would massively increase the ability of corporations to sue member states of the EU over measures such as windfall taxes on exceptional profits, or use of taxation as a policy instrument such as a possible sugar tax. Ours is a partial language part pantomime,
part grimy guesswork: adulterated speculation as to meaning & motivation. The world owes us nothing. It promises less. Call it: freedom. Free will. Or Wednesday. Producing, saving, deleting, and resurfacing data have become such an integral part of our everyday lives that we are often not really even aware of what we are doing, let alone of the consequences. And have we really lost all possibility of control over the digital traces we leave behind? Yet the traces we leave are not only digital: What are the material impacts of the technologies we take for granted? What options are left to us? All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. Acceptance of any contribution is primarily based on its originality, significance and quality. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. Selected papers will be further considered for publication. Eruptions of Telica and Momotombo prompt emergency preparations in Nicaragua Both Momotombo and Telica volcanoes in Nicaragua reported explosions on February 13. In response, the local authorities activated emergency plans to provide a rapid response if the communities become threatened. No injuries have been reported, but several communities experienced ashfall from the explosions. A series of approximately 12 small explosions occurred at Telica volcano on the morning of February 13 (local time). INETER reported ash columns rising between 300 and 1,000 m (984 and 3 281 feet) above the crater. At least 20 smaller eruptions were recorded in the next couple of hours. Some local communities experienced ashfall. An outbreak of yellow fever was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the National IHR Focal Point of Angola on January 21. First cases of yellow fever were identified in the district of Viana in Luanda province on December 5. The infection was initially confirmed in three patients at the Zoonosis and Emerging Disease Laboratory of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg, South Africa and the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, Senegal. A total of 164 suspected cases and 37 deaths were reported in Angola, as of February 8. 138 cases were reported in the Luanda province while other affected provinces include Cabinda, Cuanza Sul, Huambo, Huila, and Uige. Suspected cases are currently undergoing laboratory testing to rule out other aetiologies and cross reactions with yellow fever. The national task force has been activated to control the outbreak. Health authorities in Angola are implementing a number of control and response activities, including coordination, clinical case management, enhanced surveillance, laboratory testing, social mobilization and vector control. Epidemiological and entomological investigations are ongoing in the main affected areas. On February 3, the first round of immunization campaign started in Luanda. WHO has deployed three experts to provide operational support. In addition to financial support, technical directives and guidelines have been shared with the country’s officials to improve the quality of the response. At a time when everything seems mapped, measured, and understood, this river challenges what we think we know. It has forced me to question the line between known and unknown, ancient and modern, scientific and spiritual. It is a reminder that there are still great wonders to be discovered. We find them not just in the black void of the unknown but in
the white noise of everyday life - in the things we barely notice, the things we almost forget, even in a detail of a story. With the election Friday, an anonymous Facebook user has become a much-needed voice, reporting in ways journalists - under President Museveni’s repressed media landscape - cannot. When Ugandan police arrested a bespectacled IT analyst named Robert Shaka last year, it seemed at last the end of an elaborate multi-year game of cat and mouse between the government and one of its most vocal critics. For nearly four years, they claimed, Mr. Shaka had been masquerading as Tom Voltaire Okwalinga (TVO), a viral Facebook poster known for his salacious, all-caps political screeds, which included allegations of high-level government embezzlement, vote-rigging, and fraud - as well as a deluge of colorfully photo-shopped memes about President Yoweri Museveni and his cronies. In that time, TVO had ducked and dodged exposure, all the while racking up tens of thousands of followers from ranks of the young and disaffected, many of whom have lived their whole lives under the rule of Mr. Museveni - in power since 1986 - and greeted the Facebook mole’s critiques with hungry excitement. As it turns out, non-African modern humans have Neanderthals to thank for 1 to 4 percent of their DNA. The two species were thought to have interbred around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, based on the Neanderthal DNA found in anatomically modern human specimens and people living today. But scientists had yet to find a signature of these mating interactions in Neanderthal DNA, until now. “Instead of leaving fragments of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans, we find fragments of modern human DNA in the Neanderthal genome. Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two worldwide wars would indicate? Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. “A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination. SKYNET is a “big data” application that pulls metadata from cell phones, like where you called and who you talked to, and puts it to a machine-learning algorithm. It’s built on some questionable assumptions, as well: If you turn off your phone or let your buddy borrow it, the algorithm marks it as an attempt to avoid surveillance. Based on this, it decides how sketchy the places you visit and the people you talk to are, and it determines how likely you are to be a terrorist. Ars Technica broke out how the algorithm is engineered and found that, the way the NSA uses it, 99,000 people in countries known to harbor terrorists like Pakistan, Somalia and Afghanistan would be “false positives.” Keep in mind that this is a list of people who may be shot with a Hellfire missile. The good news is that it seems unlikely the NSA is killing everybody this algorithm seems to be marking as a terrorist. The bad news is that there have still been between 2,500 and 4,000 drone strikes since 2004, and this algorithm appears to have been at least in testing since 2007. In other words, thousands of innocent people could have died, because a computer couldn’t figure out they weren’t terrorists. A second and more heated ongoing debate is whether the global financial markets will crash or not. Of course, there are even those who claim that the global financial markets have crashed already, but we are the minority these days. Apparently to some, an evaporating $14.4 trillion in the world equity markets from its peak of $73.1 trillion on 14 June 2015 to $58.7 trillion on 31 January 2016 does not count as a market crash. Craftwork has long been synonymous with handmade, bodily engagements with tools and materials. New, often digital, technologies are currently reconf ig uring craftwork in unexpected ways, and these emerging craft-technology practices are opening up new domains for generative material thinking and sensory practical knowledge. This intersection of craft and thought, making and knowing, tradition and innovation is the focus of this session. This panel invites creative contributions that engage with the re-conceptualisation, re-invention and re-enactment of craft practices in contemporary life, using a broad definition of craft. We spe-
cifically call for reflexive collaborative work that brings craftspeople/practitioners/artists and academics/theorists together in dialogue, not necessarily only verbally. Digital fabrication technologies comprise a combination of programmable digital tools, processes, materials and equipment which allow the creation of physical objects of complexities not achievable by traditional manufacturing processes. Computer graphics research is at the centre of these developments, as it provides the underlying technologies which allow creating, validating and processing the 3D shapes and textures to be fabricated. We invite paper submission from a w i d e range of researchers and experts investigating on the many aspects related to computer g r a ph ic s and digital fabrication technologies. This research is expected to contribute towards the establishment of digital fabrication as a viable and effective option for the creation of the objects of the future. The intended audience involves experts from a wide range of areas such as computer graphics, additive manufacturing, computer aided design, material engineering, human computer interaction as well as end users from a wide range of applications including medicine, biology, engineering, arts and architecture. Hence, papers will need to present innovative computer graphics content but also refer to other areas or applications where they have been, or are going to be, tested and evaluated. It was widely rumored a few years ago that WWRL-AM 1600 had been sold. That rumor is finally a reality. ‘RL,’ as it’s known by many of its listeners, the last Black-owned radio station in New York City, was sold to Nimisha Shukla, a pediatric physician in New Jersey. On Feb. 1, it began broadcasting to a South Asian audience. For a few years now, alarms have been sounded in various quarters about Facebook’s teen problem. In 2013, one author explored why teens are tiring of Facebook, and according to Time, more than 11 million young people have fled Facebook since 2011. But many of these articles theorized that teens were moving instead to Instagram (a Facebook-owned property) and other social media platforms. In other words, teen flight was a Facebook problem, not a social media problem. Today, however, the newest data increasingly support the idea that young people are actually transitioning out of using what we might term
broadcast social media - like Facebook and Twitter - and switching instead to using narrowcast tools like Messenger or Snapchat. Instead of posting generic and sanitized updates for all to see, they are sharing their transient goofy selfies and blow-by-blow descriptions of class with only their closest friends. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law by President Clinton in 1998 as an attempt to update copyright law in accordance with the changing technology of the times. Part of the legislation, Section 1201, makes it illegal to break digital locks placed on copyrighted material, even if the intended use of the work is legal. Filmmakers and authors have long held the right to make fair use of copyrighted material, transforming it for uses like criticism
and commentary, making arguments, and providing historical context. But the DMCA made it illegal and, in some cases, a crime to access this content by breaking encryption. As a result, the DMCA inadvertently chills fair use and other lawful activities that are central to free expression in a democracy and the livelihoods of other filmmakers like me. In a democracy, we cannot keep culture locked up. Remember the age-old question, what do all those with power want? More power. As such, two monopolies have dominated American politics for over 150 years-the Democratic Party, founded in 1828, and the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Together, they form a political cartel, or an association of political parties with the purpose of maintaining concentrated power and restricting or repressing competition. Escobar was not alone in learning from the strategies of corporate giants. If anything he was late. Few organizations have pervasively and durably monopolized a market as well as A mer ica’s Republican and Democratic parties. The two dominant machines steering the U.S. electorate have consistently diminished the potential for a freer America. That’s because the reality is, rather than arch rivals, liberals and conservatives are two factions of the same team. Both are capitalist. Both are imperialist. Both are white supremacist surrogates. And both are controlled by a plutocratic elite who have discovered what Escobar learned in his early twenties, that competition is best neutralized by eliminating all possible outliers. We merely perceive the two parties as markedly different because of the degree to which the spectrum of possibilities has been narrowed. Political organizations which maintain growth long enough to survive often do so by normalizing their ideological framework. When they have obtained a disproportionate amount of influence over their immediate surroundings, they can metastasize into monopolies and control large swaths of the idea-economy. New ideas about how society ought to function can enter the market to contest old ideas, but usually encapsulated within reforms incapable of unseating the dominant paradigm. Characteristic of any capitalist system, once market monopolies are established “power tends
to flow upward to the top of a hierarchy, from which the masters, the ones qualified to employ it, decide matters for everyone else.” Immigration is a shared jurisdiction between the federal and provincial governments. For well over a century after Confederation, the federal government took the lead in the process of immigrant selection and settlement. Over the past few decades provincial governments have acknowledged their essential role in the process of settlement and integration. To this end, there have been a number of federal-provincial agreements. The admission of Syrian refugees has demonstrated just how important federal-provincial cooperation is to ensure a successful process. With a focus on the admission of Syrian refugees, our speakers will share their perspective on the province’s role in the process. What are the principal challenges the province has faced? How does the province envision the role of the principal stakeholders in the process? How can municipalities and civil society work most effectively with the province to meet the needs of newcomers? What lessons can be applied from the current experience for federalprov ic ia l cooper ation in immig rant admission, settlement and integ ration ? With a fertility rate of approximately 1.6 children per woman now and with below replacement levels since 1972, Canada’s population is rapidly aging, and were it not for sustained immigration, would have begun falling. The economic case for immigration is clear. But the question arises how well Canada will fare in the emerging global competition for talent? Part of the answer to this question lies in how well Canada will manage the growing diversity that continued immigration will bring. Speakers in this session will position Canada’s demographic future within the global context, will provide detailed projections of our population through to 2040, and will offer insights into how we can create a fully inclusive society while our diversity deepens. Diversity and inclusion touches on several themes related to immigration, integration, and citizenship. Our panel considers how diversity and inclusion overlaps in different governmental and community spheres. Our panelists will address these themes on the federal level through
newer processes of Express Entry and the Citizenship Act, and how they consequently have changed the diversity and inclusion discourse. We will further unpack civil society by mapping out the roles that Muslim advocacy organizations have played in Ontario and Quebec in advancing Muslim needs and interests. Moreover, we will aim to address the challenges faced by settlement services and front line workers in gaining accessible knowledge translation tools to navigate immigration justice processes. To further our discussion on advocacy and knowledge mobilization on an inclusive society, we will engage on current advocacy campaigns that address changing immigration discourse in Canada. For many communities across Canada, immigration is an engine of population growth, economic prosperity and socio-cultural development. A key issue is whether newcomers are choosing to settle and stay in cities/ communities that seek to attract and retain immigrants, particularly smaller centres or immigration gateways (i.e., outside Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver). The purpose of this plenary is to explore the ‘absorptive capacity’ that helps to attract and retain newcomers in smaller centres or gateways of immigration, including: key factors of attraction and retention; critical gaps; and the role of different levels of government (i.e., federal, provincial/territorial, municipal), employers and community actors in developing the capacity to ‘absorb’ and support newcomers so they can settle/integrate successfully. Uninsured/ non-status families continue to face multiple barriers to services. Workshop presenters will share about research, advocacy and service innovations/partnerships that have been mobilized in Toronto to extend vital healthcare and other services to uninsured/non-status communities. Institutional strategies for replicating and expanding on these successes will be discussed. In a statement issued early Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said building a backdoor to access encrypted data on the iPhone of San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook would be ‘too dangerous to create.’ A federal judge had ordered Apple to provide investigators access to Farook’s iPhone after the company ‘declined to provide’ it voluntarily. But Apple responded that weakening encryption would only harm law-abiding citizens who rely on the company to protect their data. ‘We can find no precedent for an American company being forced to expose its customers to a greater risk of attack,’ the statement said. ‘Criminals and bad actors will still encrypt, using tools that are readily available to them. The number of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada may total 4,000 more than three times the number compiled in 2014, officials said. Research from the Native Women’s Association of Canada puts the figure of violent atrocities committed on the group of women over the past three decades much higher than the initially reported 1,200 - a number compiled by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.Activists have on their own collected at least 4,232 names of missing or murdered indigenous women. Victims’ families have long called for an official inquiry, but former Prime Minister Stephen Harper never yielded to their requests. Newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in December that he would make it a priority, adding that he hopes for a ‘total renewal’ of Canada’s relationship with
its aboriginal population. ‘The victims deserve justice, their families an opportunity to heal and to be heard,’ Trudeau has said. ‘We must work together to put an end to this ongoing tragedy. How is it possible to enter into and to observe an unknown and abandoned space without automatically thinking of a specific function and destination for it? How is it possible to read (or to listen to) a certain text without immediately trying to catch its meaning? The idea of moving in a circle around something (either a problem, a place, or a concept) is commonly associated to a condition of fruitlessness but, in the development of a workshop, especially in an artistic context, the metaphor can help to frame and give meaning not only to a condition where work is shared in a non-hierarchical way, but also to an approach that does not face a problem only to find a solution, but rather look at it from different points of view, to find its abnormalities, its nuances, its ambiguities. The discussion that will follow such sessions will try to ‘move around’ the concept themselves of judging, projecting, understanding. And it will try to do so by using methods of exchange of ideas based on circularity. Who owns the globe’s sub-surface? What lies there, and how is it instrumentalised by private interests? Mineral Rights is a body of research and series of ongoing artworks. Tracing seams of ir on ore, pools of oil, and deposits of alloys, Almarcegui pursues mineral rights across several countries, variously recording her attempts and failures. Almarcegui tries to acquire underneath, not to extract minerals but to highlight how the territory is shaped at a geological level, and how it is broken down for exploitation. Looking back on the history of mining and land ownership, the project investigates how rulers of different countries oppose the idea that individual citizens acquire rights to mineral resources. The workshop will analyse the situation around Biella in depth. It will focus on discovering other interesting areas of transformation in the city while encouraging fieldwork and site investigation. Kindly Open Attach File for the Work of God Featuring artwork by: Sally Ayre, Robert Bean, Cindy Blazevic, Kotama Bouabane, Marco Buonocore, Maryanne Casasanta, Ulysses Castellanos, Miles Collyer, Robin Collyer, Scott Conarroe, Carole Conde + Karl Beveridge, Chris Curreri, Brandon Davis, Erika DeFreitas, Rafael Goldchain, Maggie Groat, Lili Huston-Herterich, Chris Ironside, Laurie Kang, Ruth Kaplan, Jimmy Limit, Morris Lum, Alvin Luong, Isabel M. Martinez, Kristie MacDonald, Annie MacDonell, Virginia Mak, Colin Miner, Faye Mullen, Catherine Plaisance, Sarah Sands Phillips, Chris Shepherd, Allison Tweedie, and many more! On June 3, 2015, Francisco Palomo (also defending Hudbay’s former head of security) was shot 12 times; this murder case has not been resolved. Besides representing Hudbay’s head of security, Francisco Palomo had been a lawyer for former Army General Efrain Rios Montt who was found guilty of genocide against the Mayan Ixil people during the worst years of U.S.-backed repression and genocide. Centralization means loss of flexibility, innovativeness, and independence, the essential elements of the World Wide Web. Decentralization has just begun; it is the logical consequence of this loss and lack of options. An artist mill is a phenomenon whereby a group of artists who follow false trends are separated from the main art party; they lose the idealism track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuous cycle. The artists will eventually die of exhaustion or fall into a vegetative state. Is the decentralization of internet art a cure or just another dead end? Bees and other pollinators play a vital role in our food production system by enabling the production of many of the nuts, fruits and vegetables in our diets. In total, pollinators make possible an astounding 35% of global food production and contribute more than $24 billion annually to the U.S. economy. I am a self-employed, Americanborn writer with a wife and two teenage children living in a tiny town on the plains of Montana. I’m a reader of the U.S. Constitution, one who truly believes that the Second Amendment guarantees the survival of the rest of the Bill of Rights. I came of age reading Edward Abbey’s The Brave Cowboy, Orwell’s 1984, and a laundry-list of anarchists, from Tolstoy and Kropotkin to Bakunin and Proudhon, who gave me the maxim that defined my early twenties:
“Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant: I declare him my enemy.” I read Malthus and Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, and am a skeptic of government power. I was not surprised when I read about the outrage over the sentencing of Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steve Hammond for arson: Federal mandatory minimum sentencing has been a terrible idea since its inception. I am gobsmacked by an economy that seems engineered to impoverish anyone who dares try make their own living, and by a government that seems more and more distant from the people it represents, except when calling up our sons a n d daughters to attack chaotic peoples that clearly have nothing to do with me or anybody I know. Today, John is the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and sole owner of J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc., a diversified manufacturing company headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company has seven profitable subsidiaries, with combined revenues of almost $1 billion and 5,000 valued team members. The company is the largest producer in the world of commercial truck bodies through its Morgan Corporation subsidiary. Its Leer, Century, Raider and Pace Edwards brands are prominent names in pickup truck caps and tonneaus, an industry in which it also is the world leader. Its Morgan Olson subsidiary is the largest worldwide fabricator of high-capacity delivery vans for UPS (the ubiquitous brown truck), FedEx and others. Through its remaining subsidiaries, J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. produces highly machined components for energy and industrial applications, limousines and hearses, and engineered packaging. At Rio, countries agreed to negotiate a regional instrument to promote Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration. This process is open to all Caribbean countries to join, and aims to support joint collaboration and capacity building among governments for the implementation of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration. To date, twenty governments of Latin America and the Caribbean have signed the LAC Declaration: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay. The United Nations Economic Commis-
sion for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC) is the technical secretariat. I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Eight artists, loosely associated by their use of pattern, were invited into the print workshop and shown a brief demonstration on the direct and versatile process of watercolor monotype. Provided by the stu-
dio were various materials and prepared mylars for each artist to try out. Proofs of these tests were pulled, and different possibilities discussed on how one might adapt and modify the process. The artists left the studio with two additional mylars to mess around with in their own studios, using their own materials, and at their own pace. They were encouraged to experiment, to be in contact with the print studio if they had any questions, and to eventually schedule time in the studio when they wanted to see their work transferred to paper. Additionally, the judge (Ana Leticia Pea) uses security personnel in the court room, arguing she also feels threatened. This was the argument she used to order the continuing of the trial behind closed doors, preventing access for the public and observers. During the February 11, 2015 hearing, we were informed that the harassment and persecution by these armed men continued. On February 10, these men had been at the same place in Puerto Barrios where Angelica and those accompanying her awaited the hearing. Mynor Padilla’s lawyer stated in court: ‘we bring our security personnel with us, but the CGN pays for other security personnel who we don’t know. They move around i n c o g n i t o’. This situation confirms what we had already been denouncing since the beginning of the trial regarding acts of intimidation and persecution carried out by men tied to CGN. St-Amour comes to Art Metropole from the Art Gallery of Ontario, where she was the Project Coordinator for the Aimia | AGO Photography Prize and the Artist in Residence Programs. She was previously at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, and was the co-founder of the gallery and project space WWTWO, in Montreal. “I’m very excited and honoured to be taking on this new role with Art Metropole, an organization I have been involved with for nearly 4 years, and have admired deeply for many more. Alongside an incredible group of staff and board, I look forward to engaging with Art Metropole’s diverse creative community, and continuing to rethink the possibilities of print, distribution and artists’ publishing.” Two LAPD officers have been charged with sexually assaulting four women repeatedly over the years, often while the officers were on-duty, according
to prosecutors. James Christopher Nichols and Luis Gustavo Valenzuela are accused of assaulting women between the ages of 19 and 35 from December 2008 to March 2011. The four women involved had been arrested for drug-related offenses. Valenzuela allegedly pointed a gun at one of the victims. The number of hate groups on America’s radical right has nearly doubled in the past 16 years, to 892 in 2015 from 457 in 1999, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The legal advocacy group wrote that antigovernment militiamen, white supremacists, aggressive abortion foes, domestic Islamist radicals, neo-Nazis, black separatists, and lovers of the Confederate battle flag make up just a portion of the list of ‘hate groups.’ Ku Klux Klan chapters grew to 190 last year from 72 in 2014, apparently inspired by the more than 350 pro-Confederate battle flag rallies held in response to South Carolina removing the symbol from its statehouse grounds. At the same time, black separatist hate groups reportedly grew from 113 chapters in 2014 to 180 in 2015, which the SPLC attributes to media coverage of police shootings of black men. The organization also wrote that ‘conspiracyminded, a ntigovernment ‘Patriot’ groups grew from 874 in 2014 to 998 last year. Last year saw violence from various extremist hate groups in Charleston, Colorado Springs, Chattanooga, and elsewhere. .. after the end of the apartheid system in South Africa, a Truth and Reconciliation Committee was established to reveal the wrongs that had been committed against the people of South Africa ... Yet even during the process of ‘uncovering’ many of the atrocities committed against black South Africans some of that information has been largely ignored throughout the decades after the system ended; most notably, a system of attempted genocide of black South Africans by means of a national vaccine program. My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that; namely, I can do something about it. So even if the U.S. was responsible for 2 percent of the violence in the world
instead of the majority of it, it would be that 2 percent I would be primarily responsible for. And that is a simple ethical judgment. Wise and good men are, in my opinion, the strength of the state; much more so than riches and arms. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. You were almost twentytwo when they shipped you out With the sixth motor transport battalion Operation Freedom, also known as the war No place for a good kid just trying to pay for school. The federal government has asked Iraqi authorities to investigate reports by two Canadian organizations of an alleged “massacre” of Yazidi girls and Sunni civilians during operations to rout ISIS soldiers from Anbar province in Iraq. A U.S. Army reservist from Tulsa who was asked to leave a gun range in eastern Oklahoma after identifying himself as a Muslim is suing the owners in federal court, pushing back against what he says is a rise in anti-Islamic sentiment across the country. Though the US government disputes it, new evidence shows a link between service in Iraq and Afghanistan and cancers and untreatable bronchial illnesses. You trust us to bring you the news that matters-everyday of the year. You trust us to bring you the voices shut out of the corporate media - voices that inspire, voices that change the world. You trust us to be relentless and unflinching in telling the truth. The trust you have in us is a significant responsibility. New seminar series on advances in translation research. The cutting edge of translation research is shifting. Technological and societal developments in recent years have seen dramatic changes in the ways translated texts are produced, used, and appraised. These changes have created ground-breaking new research themes, ranging from ethics and technology, to identity and crowd-sourcing. The Advances in Translation Research series will act as a platform for scholars at the forefront of these emerging research themes to demonstrate the expanding breadth of translation research today, to help illustrate its exciting implications for every domain of study, and to foster innovation and collaboration. The series is free to attend, and welcomes everyone interested in knowing more about translation. Two of the women I talked to were on ‘constant watch’ status. What is ‘constant watch’? It means that you are housed in a special cell, with a large glass window facing the hallway. You are stripped naked and all property is removed. All you have in your cell is a blanket. No toothbrush, no reading material, no silverware, no toilet paper, no soap. Nothing. A guard is assigned to sit outside your cell window and stare at you 24 hours a day, every day. This of course requires three guards, one for each shift, and those three guards literally can have NO other responsibilities. Since there were two women on constant watch status, a total of six guards were assigned this horrible job. These are the two women: Tiffany first tried to kill herself at the age of 12. Her brother found her hanging, and rushed her to the hospital, where she received